Single People Quotes:

I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City, it's 47 percent. When you have that many people who are single, they have a bigger voice and they're more willing to speak and say, 'We're not miserable, we're not sitting at home waiting for Mr. or Ms. Right, we're having a good time.' And I think single people have better friendships.

- Candace Bushnell

source: "Singles get prime time attention" by Jill Brooke, www.cnn.com. October 10, 1995.

topic: Single, New York, Home, Single People

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Heartbreak, Stay Strong, Singles, Eat Pray And Love

Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

topic: Sexy, Being Single, Mean, Singles, Single Girl

I'm single because I was born that way.

- Mae West

topic: Sarcastic, Witty, Freedom, Singles, Singleness

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.

- Jo Coudert

source: Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.131, iUniverse

topic: Self Esteem, People, Needs, Singles, Single Man

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

- Walt Whitman

topic: Individuality, Atoms, Assuming, Singles, Loving Myself

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Music, Loneliness, Being Single, Singles, Lonely Feeling

Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!

- Jay Leno

topic: Funny, Romantic, Valentines Day, Humorous Valentine, Singles

I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.

- Delta Burke

source: "5 Things to Love About Being Single" by Whitney Caudill, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

topic: Single, Lonely, Being Alone, Singles, Like Being Alone

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

- Voltaire

topic: Marriage, Being Single, Humorous, Singles, Single Girl

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

- Aristotle

topic: Men, Silence, Delight, Funny Being Single, Nicomachean Ethics

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

- Aristotle

topic: Single, Men, Solitude, Funny Being Single, Nicomachean Ethics

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

- Candace Bushnell

topic: Love, Single, Butterfly, Singles, Single Relationship

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

- Shirley MacLaine

topic: Single, Profound, Heartless, Single Girl, Single Man

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

- Nora Ephron

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Regret, Believe, Being Single, Singles, Single Again

I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

- Theodore Isaac Rubin

topic: Single, Hurt, Hate, I Am Single, Funny Being Single

In a society where every man works for himself, individual incentive, working for one's self. If people worked for one's self, there wouldn't be the electric light, there wouldn't be engines and powered vehicles, there wouldn't be electrification and reservoirs and water purification. These are processes that help all people. And processes that help single people is a very primitive value system carried into this century, which is really not necessary.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: Men, Light, Self, Electric Light, Single People

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Leo Tolstoy (graf) (194?). “War and peace: a novel”, New York

topic: Mankind, Subjects, Single People

The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent.

- Wes Smith

topic: People, Agents, Controversial, Beneficiaries, Insurance Agent

Most single people I know, myself included, have a difficult time even meeting up with the people they like, be it busy schedules, texting games, or whatever.

- Aziz Ansari

topic: Games, People, Schedules, Busy Schedules, Single People

I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

topic: Fun, Feel Better, People, Married Life, Single People

Conceit of the anti-gay law in Russia is to protect children, then the people who have the most to fear are LGBT parents. And sure enough, in conjunction with the homosexual propaganda law, they instituted a ban on adoptions by same-sex couples, or single people from countries where same-sex marriage is legal. That has very scary potential for any LGBT person with adopted kids, because Russian courts practice this particular legal concept called "annulment of adoption." So an adopted child is never exactly the same as a biological child, even if he or she was adopted ten years ago.

- Masha Gessen

topic: Single People

I'll tell you one thing, since I'm married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

- Jerry Seinfeld

source: "The funny side of the street". Interview with Rick Lyman, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2002.

topic: People, Looks, Ridiculous, Single People

Luna! Artemis! lovers' spats are icing on the cake! Your just showing off to us single people! -Minako

- Naoko Takeuchi

topic: Cake, People, Icing, Spats, Single People

One person simply can’t be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet needs, unfulfilled desire, and unexplored possibilities are prices we pay to be in LTRs (long –term relationships). Monogamous, polyamorous, Femdom, or whatever: All couples people walk around feeling a little unfulfilled. (Single people, too). Because no one gets everything they want.

- Dan Savage

topic: Couple, Long, People, Unmet Needs, Long Term Relationship

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.

- J. K. Rowling

source: J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.138, Hachette UK

topic: Love Life, Thinking, Rights, Single People

[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Block, Struggle, Men, Harbinger, Coolness

NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be a balance and NASA is going to do certain things and we are finally in a state of existence where small groups of individuals can do extraordinary things, funded by single people.

- Peter Diamandis

source: Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

topic: People, Balance, Groups, Single People

Do married people live longer than single people or does it just SEEM longer?

- Steven Wright

topic: Funny, Humor, People, Single People

I have laid the stick that connects people together. Now it is up to you, your generation and the generations to come, to build upon that stick a bridge that will ensure the free sharing of information and teaching between the two peoples until the day we become united again as a single people, as we were once before; before men separated us with their imaginary political boundaries of today's Polynesia and Micronesia.

- Mau Piailug

source: "Piailug's greatest lesson is that we are a single people". "Honolulu Star-Advertiser" Newspaper, July 29, 2010.

topic: Teaching, Men, Bridges, Polynesia, Single People

I hate, loathe, and despise Christmas. It's a time when single people have to take cover or get out of town.

- Kristin Hunter

topic: Christmas, Hate, People, Single People

There was however, a group of 507 individuals who were permanent street dwellers [in Miami.] These 507 were not indigent, down-on-their-luck families. They were single people and every one of them was mentally ill.

- Pete Earley

source: Pete Earley (2007). “Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness”, p.103, Penguin

topic: People, Luck, Groups, Mentally Ill, Dwellers

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.

- Marian Wright Edelman

topic: Kings, People, Movement, Single People

Every teaching position, every missionary position can be held by single people. We welcome to that kind of service people who are struggling with any kind of temptation when the struggle is a good struggle and they are living so as to be appropriate teachers, or missionaries, or whatever the calling may be.

- Dallin H. Oaks

source: Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

topic: Teacher, Struggle, Teaching, Single People

Don't take advice from single people. No shade to everybody in here that's single, but I say that from one point, being the single girl that just knew it all. In the long run, I had to learn. I had to be able to give that chance.

- Teyana

source: Source: www.billboard.com

topic: Girl, Running, Long, Single People

Single people slip out of the dating market for many social, economic, psychological, and ideological reasons including marriage, illness, bankruptcy, job promotion, exhaustion, and common sense. Inevitably, however, they return because of divorce, boredom, loneliness, and memory loss.

- Linda Sunshine

topic: Jobs, Memories, Loneliness, Memory Loss, Single People